Following Donald Trump‘s explore to the Arlington National Cemetery next year, which allegedly paid tribute to 13 workers who died in an Afghanistan death bombing, alarm bells are beginning to sound in the US.
Trump responded on Sunday after being attacked by the present administration, experienced organizations, and Kamala Harris for politicising the event to gain electoral support. He posted videos from many families who claimed they had invited him to a ceremony marking the third anniversary of the tragedy, and that they were pleased he came. Some families went so far as to attribute the demise of their loved one to the latest dispensation, while others claim they had informed the White House about the incident but received no response from the Biden-Harris management.
Many military veterans and the families of fallen men criticized Trump for turning a grave situation on a hallowed ground into a social scene and for releasing what they called a” plan video” at the same time. Issues ranging from who was responsible for the Afghanistan crisis to what constitutes nationalism are then raging.
When Kamala Harris allegedly jumped into the fight over the weekend provoked by criticism that neither she nor Biden went for the event, the conflict among family members of the fallen and surviving soldiers had been simmering for five nights.
” As Vice President, I have had the honor of making many visits to Arlington National Cemetery. In a speech, Harris criticizes Trump for turning a personal event into a “political prank,” noting that it is a place where we come up to recognize American soldiers who have made the ultimate sacrifice in support of this country.
Donald Trump has not made any new statements. This is a person who has called our fallen service people” fools “and” losers” and disparaged Medal of Honor consumers. A man who, during a previous visit to the cemetery, reportedly said of fallen service members”, I do n’t get it. What was in it for them? She lashed out, claiming that a man who ca n’t give a damn about the military” should never ever stand behind the President of the United States of America’s seal.”
A group called VoteVets released an ad featuring Trump as a document dodgers” who ran to a doctor doctor when the review board called his number,” while others veterans even publicly criticized the previous president on social media. A former green beret tweeted on X:” I’m outraged beyond words at the despicable behavior of Trump. We ca n’t allow this convicted felon and draft dodger anywhere near the White House.”
In a mocking discussion, shock jock Howard Stern and Donald Trump had jokingly claimed that avoiding sexually transmitted disease while traveling in New York was his “personal Vietnam.”
Trump had a history of abstaining from service during the Vietnam War and disparaging the compromise of both living and fallen men, but he often presented himself as a valiant follower of the defense. On one occasion, he officially mocked a fellow Republican, the late Senator John McCain, a decorated war hero, for being a prisoner of war in Vietnam, saying,” He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who were n’t captured”.
While a dozen people sided with Trump over the Arlington occurrence, the former senator was also structurally rebuked by the US Army, which has control over the tomb. ” Participants in the meeting on August 26 and the subsequent Part 60 visit were made aware of federal regulations, Army rules, and DoD laws, which evidently forbid social activities on cemetery basis. The Army said in the statement that an ANC employee who attempted to enforce these rules was abruptly pushed aside. This implicitly confirmed a violation and a physical altercation.
Trump has also irritated some veterans by frequently disparaging at least three senior military generals from his administration, including John Kelly, his former chief of staff. He has called them” stupid”, and has said if he wins a second term, he will fire “woke generals” and replace them with those who subscribe to his MAGA doctrine.
Trump frequently makes references to “men and women in uniform” and praises them, ostensibly in an effort to win the support of the country’s police and military, while making the case that Democrats are “weak on law and order” and do not know how to make use of America’s military might to maintain world peace. However, some of his own MAGA supporters are isolationists and anti-interventionists who think Democrats are war criminals.
